Composing miniatures for voice and viola // Sarah Dacey + Stephen Upshaw

Vocalist Sarah Dacey (Juice Vocal, Riot Ensemble) and violist Stephen Upshaw (Solem Quartet, Riot Ensemble) led a pair of workshops introducing participants to less conventional approaches to score writing, including unusual uses of graphic scores and notating extended techniques. In-between two guided sessions, the participants each composed their own miniature work for the duo, which were subsequently workshopped by Sarah and Stephen, with sketches and ideas recorded for review in the second session. Below are some examples of the resulting works.